My Flirtacious Husband (Genevieve and Armand)
Chapter 426 Did It Have Something To Do With Her

In truth, Cooper had not been able to dig up much information on Jack using the connections Armand had provided during his trip to Dartan.

Knowing that the Helt family was extremely powerful, and with Jack being the head of the Helt family and Dartan his own domain, Cooper understood that it would be easy for the latter to erase whatever information he wanted.

Without waiting for Genevieve's reply, Cooper got up to walk toward the desk and retrieved a photograph from the bottom of the drawer.

He then passed that along to Genevieve. "Did it have anything to do with her?"

After his return from Dartan, Cooper told Armand everything he had learned, save that photo, which was almost completely burned, that he did not pass along.

Even through the murkiness of the photo, one could still vaguely tell that it featured a very attractive young woman.

Peering down at the photo, Genevieve laughed. "You're sharp, Coop. I'd give you that. Didn't expect that you'd be able to figure out this much based on this one blemished photo, despite not knowing anything about it to start with."

"The timing isn't right at the moment, though," Genevieve continued, shaking her head. "I'll explain everything after I've finished sorting things out."

"Okay." Seeing that she was reluctant to divulge, Cooper did not want to press any further.

The two continued to converse over coffee. Cooper told Genevieve that the Helt family had an unusual connection with the investment firm behind the venture that revived the Wood Group. It turned out it was Jack's ex-wife, Lillian, and not Jack himself, who was the driving force behind them.

They were unable to figure out why she wanted to help the Wood family as well, considering that the latter two had no ties to each other whatsoever.

Lilian might be rich, but Xavier had no obvious talent for business at all.

It took only a single ploy set up by Cooper and Armand to completely run the entire Wood family into the ground, after which all of the profitable businesses to the Wood Group's name became swiftly snapped up by Specter Corporation.

Cooper glanced at Genevieve and said, "There's something else you should know. Through some unusual means, Jack has managed to acquire a considerable stake in the Faulkner Group. Last year, he had already become its largest shareholder. Now, Samantha has to call him ahead of time to consult him before she could execute anything she wanted to do."

Genevieve pursed her lips. "Yeah. I knew about that."

She went on to tell him about her intention to use Jack as part of her plans for seeking revenge, why she had spent the last four years in Dartan, and how she had not been idle during that time either. While Genevieve was telling Cooper about the things that had happened during her prolonged period of absence, someone else's name also came up.

"How is Jane doing?"

"Are you referring to Armand's cousin?" Cooper thought about it, then said, "Wasn't she going to marry into the Wood family? All these years, Armand had been secretly preventing that from happening. He had her brought to Jadeborough after her father's sudden passing in an accident as things had been a little chaotic for her at home. I was the one who sent her to Yartran last year to treat her heart condition when he wasn't able to, but it didn't prove to be effective at all."

"The last time I dined out with Armand, I saw that she was extremely frail and coughing every few steps..." Cooper continued as a look of pity appeared on his face. "Seems even more painful to have to carry on living that way."

Similarly, Genevieve felt sympathetic toward Jane, who was intelligent and beautiful, only to be cursed with a constitution like that. "She previously helped me out once, so do try to lend a hand if she asks you for anything. Just think of her as your sister as well."

"For your sake, I will, but I want nothing to do with the Faulkners," Cooper said passively.

He did not much care about his ties to the Faulkner family as he had not forgotten how the rest of his own family died.

Taking a quick look at his watch, Cooper got up from the couch. "Since I don't have much to do in the morning, let's go for a drive, and we can have lunch together after."

"Perhaps tomorrow. I want to go for some barbecue with Jojo today," replied Genevieve as she reached for her phone.

Half an hour had passed since she last texted Johanna, but the latter had yet to reply.

She had seen Johanna around in the secretarial department on the way to the CEO's office. When the latter did not respond to her greeting earlier, she simply assumed that it was because the woman was busy.

Surely, she can't be so busy that she has no time to check her phone at all?

"And I thought that I was the one you wanted to see in the office after returning here..." Cooper exhaled. Then, he waved his hands to shoo her out of the office to grant himself some peace of mind.